Glyn Maxwell's latest book of poems, Hide Now, was shortlisted for both the Forward and T S Eliot Prizes, and his Selected Poems will be published by Farrar Straus in 2011. His plays have been staged in London and New York, and he has written libretti for several operas, including The Lion's Face, which opens at the Brighton Festival in May 2010, prior to a UK tour. He lives in Islington, London.